The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake is the second studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait, released in 1995. It peaked at No. 14 on the ARIA Albums Charts.
The album was named after the real unfinished Spanish galleon built in Spiderbait's hometown, Finley, New South Wales, which was a "failed civic beautification project".McFarlane, 'Spiderbait' entry. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon Of Finley Lake did well for the band, picking up two ARIA nominations and drawing industry attention.
Reception
Emma MacDonald of The Canberra Times opined, in October 1995, that "the music is inventive and quite melodic but, be warned, what seems like a nice musical jaunt at first can turn into a thrashing, speaker-blowing experience without the slightest warning." Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane felt it "found the band adding a jazzier touch (as on the title track) to the usually frantic, distortion-fuelled thrash-pop style." Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic wrote that it "consisted of short (most songs are under three minutes) blasts of punk-pop," adding that "[w]ith their buzzing guitars and the strange vocals of lead singer Kram, Spiderbait were a kind of hybrid of the rawer moments of the Pixies and the Muffs, but less melodic than either of those two."
Track listing All songs are written by Spiderbait (Kram, Janet English and Damian Whitty)
"Detective" ends at 3:20. After 5 minutes of silence (3:20 – 8:20) begins an untitled hidden track: it's a section, where instructional audio on table playing is accompanied by a MIDI track reminiscent of a Casio keyboard tune.
Charts Chart (1995/96) Peakposition
Release history Country Release date Format Label Catalogue Australia CD Polydor 529 155-2 Cassette 529 155-4 Worldwide Digital download Universal Australia LP 7801242
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